Stylus Digital 710

Stylus Digital 710

Olympus Stylus Digital 710 Review

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Record Modes & Screens

Rotating the Mode dial to the GUIDE position will bring up the built-in Shooting Guide on the
LCD screen. There are 15 selections to choose from.

Here you can see the typical record mode screen. The "P" indicates Program (Auto) exposure
mode, in the center are the auto focus target marks, and across the bottom is image quality,
SHQ = Super High Quality (7-megapixels) and there's enough space on our xD card for 144
pictures.

When you half-press the shutter release it starts the autofocus process and if it locks you'll
get the "focus OK" green icon (top left). If focus fail you will get a red "can't focus" icon
(not shown.) The "red lightning bolt" icon indicates the flash is charged and ready.

Pressing the 4-way controller Up, Down, Left or Right allows you to quickly change settings for
Macro focus mode, Flash mode, Self-timer, and Exposure compensation.

You can access a variety of Scene modes by rotating the Mode dial to the SCN position. As you
go through the Scene selections an image depicting the mode is shown and then a brief text
explanation of the mode is presented (shown above.) You can choose from 23 different exposure
modes: Portrait, Landscape, Landscape+Portriat, Night Scene, Night+Portrait, Sport, Indoor,
Candle, Self Portrait, Available Light Portrait, Sunset, Fireworks, Museum, Cuisine, Behind
Glass, Documents, Auction, Shoot&Select 1, Shoot&Select 2, Beach&Snow, Under Water Wide 1,
Under Water Wide 2, and Under Water Macro.

Even though the Stylus 710 is weather resistant, it can not be submerged. To use its
underwater scene modes, the optional underwater housing is required.

Digital Image Stabilization Mode is also located on the Mode dial (shaky hand symbol) and uses
Olympus' Bright Capture technology, which boosts the ISO sensitivity. This keeps shutter speeds
higher in order to reduce the blurring effects of camera shake or subject movement during the
exposure. Image size is not reduced when using this feature.

Pressing the OK/FUNC. button will bring up the menu of options shown above.

Press the MENU button to bring up the Record mode Menu. You can use the shortcut menus to
quickly change image resolution, reset all settings to factor defaults, change the scene mode
as well as enter the Camera or Setup menus.

Press the 4-way selector "left" to enable Macro focus mode and take closeup shots at a range of
7.9 inches (0.2m) to infinity, or enable Super Macro mode and get as close as 3.2 inches (8cm.)

The Panorama mode has an onscreen guide to help you make the best possible panorama
pictures by getting the necessary overlap between successive images. Up to 10 frames
can be captured and then stitched together with the Camedia Master software. You must
use an Olympus brand xD-Picture Card to use the Panorama mode.

Movie mode lets you capture SHQ (640x480), HQ (320x240) or SQ (160x120) resolution motion video
at 15fps with sound. The length of a movie is limited only by the available memory. Because the
Stylus 710 features a built-in microphone, the optical zoom may not be used during recording.
You can preset the desired focal length before starting to record a movie.

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